Treasures from the estate of beloved newspaperman and diplomat Bill Hosokawa — including a Tiffany & Co. sterling silver serving tray, Asian porcelains, a curio cabinet from Japan and several hapi coats — are being offered at a sale that begins at 9 a.m. today (April 12) at 140 S. Upham Court, Lakewood.

It continues from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, when any remaining items will be marked down by 50 percent.

Hosokawa, who spent 38 years at The Denver Post, was 92 when he died in 2007. In addition to his newspaper work, Hosokawa served for decades as Japan’s honorary consul in Colorado; he also wrote seven books and co-authored two more.

“Nisei: The Quiet Americans,” became a best-seller in 1969 and was one of the first books to recount the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. He was 90 when his last book, “Colorado’s Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present,” was published.

In May, Hosokawa’s name will grace a new bonsai pavilion at the Denver Botanic Gardens’ expanded and renovated Japanese garden. The $1.2 million project will be unveiled, along with a major outdoor bamboo sculpture exhibition, during the centennial of Japan’s gift of cherry trees to the United States.

Joyce Anderson, Hosokawa’s secretary when he was editor of The Denver Post’s editorial pages, remembers her former boss as “… a very humble person, a very private person. I spent a career trying to raise his eyebrows and never could. He was a very even-tempered boss.”

Other items at the sale are Nambe silver; original art by Arturo Nieto; sterling silver flatware; wood block prints; Asian vases, screens, fans and tea pots; Japanese crafts, dolls and kimonos; Chinese cloisonné; and a wide assortment of books.